CHICAGO– Scheduled within the recent 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival was “Shorts Program #2.” During that event … curated by CCFF shorts programmer Collin Souter … the Windy City was introduced to Filmmaker Sarah Lasley, with her surreal, expressive and brilliant short “Welcome to the Enclave.”
In 12 rich minutes, “Welcome to the Enclave” introduces us to Moni and Blair, two sisters fighting to save their digital utopia from demise. When they come up with an idea for creating income, they immediately are under attack from internet hackers who have changed their road signs to obscenities and splattered the walls with sexually explicit videos. Together with her sister, Moni desperately looks for a way to save her patch of e-serenity. The film features actor/choreographer Brenna Palughi.
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‘Welcome to the Enclave’ by Sarah Lasley
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Sarah Lasley is a video artist from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt. She has screened internationally at film festivals such as the Chicago Critics Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Cairo Video Festival, Katonah Museum of Art, Vox Populi Gallery, and the Wrong Bienniale. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and a BFA from University of Louisville and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.
In Part One in a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, filmmaker Sarah Lasley talks about the processes, and her collaboration with Brenna Palughi, in creating “Welcome to the Enclave” …
In Part Two, online trolling and our fave “third character” …
In Part Three, using the “camera” and Moni’s famous dance…
In a video clip, Sarah Lasley introduces “Welcome to the Enclave,” streaming below …
And now, Sarah Lasley’s “Welcome to the Enclave” …
| Image may be NSFW. Clik here to view.  | By PATRICK McDONALD |